Ferrari and Lamborghini: No Plans for All-Electric Sports Cars

But they'll offer hybrids

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Several automakers have recently announced plans to electrify their entire lineup, offering only hybrid and all-electric vehicles within a few years. Lamborghini and Ferrari look to follow suit sans the full electric part. Both Italian supercar makers are currently working on hybrid versions of their sports cars but have no plans to develop a pure EV. Executives from both companies confirmed this at the Frankfurt auto show in Germany.

Ferrari’s chief technology officer, Michael Leiters, said, “There is a need for more time, more innovation to get the same performance, and, what’s even more challenging, to get the same driving pleasure that we have today. Just think of the sound and things like that which are essential for us. For us the first step is hybridization.”

Lamborghini’s CEO, Stefano Domenicali, expressed the company’s interest in hybrid systems while also noting its continued commitment behind naturally aspirated V-10 and V-12 engines. “I don’t see electric to be an immediate development in the super sports car segment, but hybridization for sure will come, in the next five years for sure,” he said.